How do you dispose of trash?

[smkiya]

I hate summer for trash disposal. I rinse off paper plates, quadruple bag raw meat packages, and throw eaten meat and food items that can't go down the disposal into ziplock bags. Then when the kitchen trash bag is full, I'll put it into another trash bag and set it in the kitchen closet until at least 3 days before trash day.

Crazy? I know...

Years ago my husband would throw meat and chicken wings, etc. right into the kitchen trash without bagging it first. He'd take the trash bag out of the kitchen can and throw it (untied ) into the outside trash can. One week he forgot to put the trash out, and the trash men came early. The trash had to sit outside one more week. Well, one day I went out to put a bag in and the can was swarming with maggots. Someone told me to pour in bleach ... not such a bright idea. The maggots overflowed out of the can and poured onto the ground. The can was about 15 feet from the house and maggots made their way towards the house, up the back stairs, under my screen door into the kitchen!!!!

Needless to say I have to make sure that NEVER happens again!!! Dh still doesn't tie the kitchen bags before putting it in the outside can (lazy!!!) so I have to bag and tie before he can take it out. I'm just curious, is anyone else this weird when it comes to the throwing out trash?

 

[AKL_Megs]

I've never had an issue with smell or maggots. I use scented bags, and close them up real tight before they go outside in the cans in our garage. I throw away raw meat, veggies, scrapings, everything. So far this summer, the worst smell came from cantelope peels, and the worst garbage issue we had was a seagull in our garage. Boy, was HE lost!

 

[msjprincess]

I put everything into kitchen bags, tie them and put them out in the cans until trash day. I've never had a problem with smell or maggots. We have garbage pickup twice a week.

 

[joviroxx]

Ive never had an issue with the garbage. We throw everything out in the garbage bags sittin in the garbage bin in the kitchen that sits in its own cabinet. When its full, it goes out to the big trashcan (industrial one our city makes us have ). Twice a week we have garbage pickup.

I don't baggie anything either. Sometimes, if its too much raw food, I put it in a grocery plastic bag, tie it up and throw it in the big trashbin.

 

[Carly_Roach]

I put everything into kitchen bags, tie them and put them out in the cans until trash day. I've never had a problem with smell or maggots. We have garbage pickup twice a week.

We do the same thing and have garbage pickup once a week. We've never had any problems. What is the OP doing that she has problems with maggots?

 

[Sparx]

Food that will go down the sink disposal does, everything else goes in a garbage bag that goes into our dumpster. I live in an apartment complex and there are several large dumpsters available for us to use. It goes outside as soon as the bag is full.

 

[JessicaR]

I put everything into kitchen bags, tie them and put them out in the cans until trash day. I've never had a problem with smell or maggots. We have garbage pickup twice a week.

Same here. My pails are covered. Our biggest problem is racoons.

 

[smkiya]

We do the same thing and have garbage pickup once a week. We've never had any problems. What is the OP doing that she has problems with maggots?

We also only have trash pickup once a week. The maggot incident happened 8 years ago, and that was when everything was just thrown in the trash and dh didn't tie the bags when he put them in the outside trash. Plus, he forgot to take it to the curb one week so we missed trash pickup and it sat around outside for an extra week.

But since then I've been doing extra to make sure that never happens again. Those maggots were coming in for hours that day, and it will forever live in my memory!!!

I did get the bagging raw and used food and bones in old shopping bags from my mom though, to prevent smells from attracting racoons. She's always done that. I stopped when I moved in with dh, cause he said it wasn't necessary... Well, after that episode, I started again!

 

[indimom]

We do the same thing and have garbage pickup once a week. We've never had any problems. What is the OP doing that she has problems with maggots?

Did you catch the part about missing regular pick up??? So the trash sat an extra week?? That'll do it.
We store our trash in bins with lids. But there must have been some cracks big enough for flies because it happened to us too.
We went on vacation and forgot to take out the trash. It sat in the June heat for a week until we got back. We set it out to the curb as usual.
I was rinsing dishes at the kitchen sink and saw the garbage truck pull up and the man start to dump the can. He suddenly panicked, dropped the can, grabbed a water bottle from the side of the truck and started rinsing his arms off. Yep. He dumped maggots all over himself.
I was soooo embarassed and grossed out. DH had to clean the can. We are absolute control freaks about the trash now. It will NEVER happen again.

 

[DMass]

This may sound weird but bones and stuff that doesn't go down the disposal goes in a baggie in the freezer. Luckily our trashman comes fairly early so the stuff doesn't get a chance to thaw out too much.

 

[Kae]

This may sound weird but bones and stuff that doesn't go down the disposal goes in a baggie in the freezer. Luckily our trashman comes fairly early so the stuff doesn't get a chance to thaw out too much.

Wow good idea. Basically the only thing I don't put down the disposal is Celery, onion, bones, Corn husks everthing else down the disposal.

Kae

 

[minkydog]

I hate summer for trash disposal. I rinse off paper plates, quadruple bag raw meat packages, and throw eaten meat and food items that can't go down the disposal into ziplock bags. Then when the kitchen trash bag is full, I'll put it into another trash bag and set it in the kitchen closet until at least 3 days before trash day.

Crazy? I know...

Years ago my husband would throw meat and chicken wings, etc. right into the kitchen trash without bagging it first. He'd take the trash bag out of the kitchen can and throw it (untied ) into the outside trash can. One week he forgot to put the trash out, and the trash men came early. The trash had to sit outside one more week. Well, one day I went out to put a bag in and the can was swarming with maggots. Someone told me to pour in bleach ... not such a bright idea. The maggots overflowed out of the can and poured onto the ground. The can was about 15 feet from the house and maggots made their way towards the house, up the back stairs, under my screen door into the kitchen!!!!

Needless to say I have to make sure that NEVER happens again!!! Dh still doesn't tie the kitchen bags before putting it in the outside can (lazy!!!) so I have to bag and tie before he can take it out. I'm just curious, is anyone else this weird when it comes to the throwing out trash?

OMG! I didn't know they could crawl that far! I would think a few squirts of Raid would take care of the little buggers.

I don't double bag anything.We take trash out every day (and we live in GA.) But I have a tall, sturdy garbage can out there that will hold a weeks' worth easily and it's too heavy for animals to knock over. I just don't look down in the bottom. I'm sure I would be grossed out.

 

[DeniseinNS]

food scraps and a few other things (paper towel, coffee grinds, etc...) go into the recycle bin that the city collects every week in the summer and every week. The city provides us with a small and a large green bin per house. All other stuff goes into a garbage bag and gets put outside in a garbage bin until it gets collected. As soon as a garbage bag is full it goes out, I couldn't imagine keeping garbage in the house.

 

[allison443]

I hate summer for trash disposal. I rinse off paper plates, quadruple bag raw meat packages, and throw eaten meat and food items that can't go down the disposal into ziplock bags. Then when the kitchen trash bag is full, I'll put it into another trash bag and set it in the kitchen closet until at least 3 days before trash day.

Crazy? I know...

Years ago my husband would throw meat and chicken wings, etc. right into the kitchen trash without bagging it first. He'd take the trash bag out of the kitchen can and throw it (untied ) into the outside trash can. One week he forgot to put the trash out, and the trash men came early. The trash had to sit outside one more week. Well, one day I went out to put a bag in and the can was swarming with maggots. Someone told me to pour in bleach ... not such a bright idea. The maggots overflowed out of the can and poured onto the ground. The can was about 15 feet from the house and maggots made their way towards the house, up the back stairs, under my screen door into the kitchen!!!!

Needless to say I have to make sure that NEVER happens again!!! Dh still doesn't tie the kitchen bags before putting it in the outside can (lazy!!!) so I have to bag and tie before he can take it out. I'm just curious, is anyone else this weird when it comes to the throwing out trash?

That maggot story is disgusting! Did you stop them before they got into the house?
We have pickup once a week, but we don't have a disposal. Food scraps, meat scraps, etc. all goes into the kitchen can. We tie those bags and then throw them outside every night. I wouldn't keep garbage in my house-that's what the outside trash can is for!

 

[daughtersrus]

We put our trash bags into the can in our garage (it's against our village ordinance to have trash cans outside in our yard). We usually don't have a problem with maggots. One thing that we have found to be helpful is to put moth balls in the outside can. For some reason, this seems to help keep the flies out. I should add that we have to place the bags by the street on trash day, not the can so the moth balls stay in the can. I usually only have to replace them once or twice a year.

 

[MosMom]

I must be a serious trash underachiever. I put it in a bag, tie it up, and throw it in the trash can. No freezing, quadruple bagging, etc. I just throw it away.

 

[Ceila]

I must be a serious trash underachiever. I put it in a bag, tie it up, and throw it in the trash can. No freezing, quadruple bagging, etc. I just throw it away.

Me too.

OP, why don't you just make your husband tie the trash bags up? And remember to put the trash out? Wouldn't that solve the problem? I wouldn't want trash bags sitting in my kitchen for days.

 

[sbell111]

We don't do any sort of processing of the trash to make sure that it is clean.

We throw everything in a plastic bag in the kitchen can. When that gets full, we tie it and chuck it into the big green can that sits outside in the back of our garage. Once a week, garbage men come to take it away.

 

[sbell111]

I must be a serious trash underachiever. I put it in a bag, tie it up, and throw it in the trash can. No freezing, quadruple bagging, etc. I just throw it away.

Like it's trash, huh?

 

[pilesoflaundry]

Out in the country in the heat maggots in the trash is common. Especially with once a week pickup if your can doesn't close extremely tight. All it takes is one or two flys in there.

Gross! We bag up the trash and put it in the garage until trash day and then pour a little bleach in the can to keep the flys out until the trash is picked up. We haven't had maggots in the outside can in awhile since we started that.